The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-04-15
Ladies' Department.
Advancement of Flower Beds.

In arranging your garden always
keep in mind the character Of plants
when developed, and use accordingly
For a bed near the path you would
not care to use tall growing plants
neither would you care to use low
plants in q distant bed where all in
dividuality would be lost. Bear in
mind that plants grow, and the tiny
thing you set out to-day, will bt
when developed quite a different
thing. Look ahead, therefore, wher
deciding where you will have your
beds, and what you will have il
them.
never would cut up the front
yard with flower beds if | could pos
sibly avoid dong so. A smootl
expanse of grass before the house is
more pleasing when left to itself
than when cut up by beds, be they
large or small, plain or fanciful. Lo
cate your flower garden at one side
and near the sitting room, if it may
he so and let part of it be near the
kitchen, so that those who have
housework to do can enjoy the
beauty and fragrance as they go
about their daily labor. If you have
flowers only in font of the house
and away from the rooms in daily
occupations, you will regard them in
a sort of company light. You
should have them near you, and con-
slider them as companions in order
to get the most enjoyment from
them.
would never advise any one to
attempt working out intricate de
signs in small garden. cit doesn't
pay" The effect will be spoiled ev-
en- if the design is we'll executed, for
the clrcumscribed limits of an Or
binary yard will not admit of a
proper display of the bed, because
beds in which pattern is worked
out in colors must always be seen
from above, or from a distance, in
order to have its beauties properly
appreciated. Distance always lends
enchantment in these cases. If you
have large grounds, such beds can
be made effective, but 1t is not
worth while to attempt them in the
ordinary yard. Let the design be
simple and secondary. Have the
flowers for themselves first of all.
Let the arrangement Of them be in
such designs as suit your fancy be
of less Importance,
Crescents, stars and diamonds are
easily made, and contrasting celors
can be arranged in them easily with
good effect. A crescent can be- ed
ged all around with pink Phlox with
a centre row of white. and the effect
will be very pleasing A star or
diamond can be planted with rows of
different colored flowers, or can be
edged with one color, and the center
filed in with another in mass rath-
er than in rows. The Phlox and AS
tiers are our two best ANIMALS for
this use. A crescent in which the
inner curve is fronting the house
can be made very effective by plant
ing it to Asters of different heights.
Use the tall growers for the farther
edge of the curve. In front of these
plant some of contrasting color and
lower growth. Edge the bed in front
with the dwarf varieties. The cata-
logues will tell you about the habit
OF each variety. In order to make
these beds effective you will haye to
bear in mind the fact that you must
get packages of seed in which each |
color is by itself. Mixed colors can.
not be used in carrying out designs
in which success depends on contrast
of color in fixed proportion and def
mite location. Stars or diamonds |
can be planted with tall growing
plants in the center, using lower
growers about them and edging the
beds with such plants as Sweet AL,
yssum; Candytuft or Migonette. A
charming circular bed can be made
by using Calliopsis in the center in
quantity for mass when \,
the plants have developed. SnrrounaI
it with white Phlox and use Nj
onette as a, border IF y0u
plant Of perennian, 4aEksr IN
intense blue variety lave {
center the effect W pur OF the
Some might thf' 20 set IN th'
non OF blue I'll be heightened
iopsis ak that the combina
:ords' and yellow in the Cal
md Larkspur would De dis
Int, but such is not the case
10Th are so intense in tone that thu
effect is quite different from comb
nations of ordinary blne and yellow
If you buy plants, you can maxi
very effective combinations will
Geraniums of different colors. Th'
pink varieties are most pleasing
when used in quantities. They dc
not tire the eye as the flaming scar